Rosie Sorenson, MA, MFT
About Rosie
Rosie Sorenson, MA, MFT, is a former healthcare administrator and psychotherapist.
Rosie’s work has appeared in the Literary Medical Messenger (https://med-lit.vcu.edu/media/med-lit/docs/Spring2018PDF.pdf, pg. 12; the Los Angeles Times, Mobius, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, University of Iowa Daily Palette and others.
Her essays appear in popular anthologies, including the Magic of Memoir: Inspiration for the Writing Journey.
In addition, she has been writing political satire for The Progressive Populist for the past six years (www.populist.com) Prior to that she wrote a humor column for The Foolish Times for ten years.
Awards:
The San Francisco Writers Conference Writing Contest: Finalist for the Introduction to her new book, If You’d Only Listen: A Medical Memoir of Gaslighting, Grit and Grace, published in their new 2023 anthology, What We’ve Believed.
The Joyce Turley Scholarship from the 2020 San Francisco Writers Conference for an essay.
The Listener Favorite Award from the popular San Francisco NPR affiliate in its “Perspectives” series.
Winner in the essay competition from the Writers College, UK and NZ
Honorable Mention in the Erma Bombeck Writing Contest.
Muse Medallion Award from the International Cat Writers Association for They Had Me at Meow: Tales of Love from the Homeless Cats of Buster Hollow.
Rosie lives in Northern California with Steve and their beloved kitty Billy.
Award Winning Writer
Rosie's work has appeared in the Literary Medical Messenger, Mobius, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Pittsburg Tribune-Review and other publications. Her essays appear in popular anthologies, including the Magic of Memoir: Inspiration for the Writing Journey.
Her awards are as follows:
1) The Joyce Turley Scholarship from the San Francisco Writers Conference, for an essay.
2) Winner of the essay competition from the Writers College, UK and NZ.
3) Listener Favorite Award from the popular San Franisco NPR affiliate in its "Perspectives" series, for an esay.
4) Honorable Mention in the Erma Bombeck Writing Contest
5) Honorable Mention in the Spruce Montain Contest
For the past five years, she has been writing political satire for The Progressive Populist (www.populist.com) For ten years prior to that, she wrote humor for the Foolish Times.